Template:On this day/April 20

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

April 20:

• 1719 – French period: The Sieur de Bienville, French governor at Mobile, received orders to seize Pensacola.
• 1826 – Commodore Lewis Warrington assumed command of the Pensacola Navy Yard.
• 1913 – Three aircraft and a detachment of fifteen men left from the Naval Aeronautical Station for Tampico aboard the USS Birmingham.
• 1967 – Cordova Cinemas opened.